If Kedro supports unpacking parameters dictionary,...
# user-research
n
If Kedro supports unpacking parameters dictionary, would it causes more confusion than convinence? IMO it is most beneficial if the function is reused multiple time and reduce the need of a thin function wrapper (and an extra file maybe). I am particular interested with people who use kedro to develop packages. https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro/issues/2749
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d
I’ve said we’ve needed this for a long time!
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n
Any push back in the past? I couldn't find a relevant issue.
d
No it was more that we didn’t know how to make it work
I also thin we should be able to unpack input datasets in addition to just the params
m
What do you mean with “unpack datasets”?
d
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node(foo, inputs=['**dataset', 'params:bar'])
In case you provide an dictionary or iterable here
n
isn’t dataset here a string? or a dictionary
https://docs.kedro.org/en/stable/nodes_and_pipelines/nodes.html#syntax-for-input-variables Otherwise passing a dict should work already (although we didn’t promote a lot this syntax and I found many people not aware of this)
d
I think i passed a list in memmory from one node and wanted to pass it as kwargs to another I would want to use **
m
That would be a nice feature!
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n
Could I get your upvote in the Github issue if you think this is useful? It helps to prioritise it. 🙏🏼 Bonus if you can give an example why this is useful to you.